Southern Brooklyn politicians are asking New York Senator Chuck Schumer to not forget about the deteriorating Shore Parkway Promenade when negotiating a large federal infrastructure bill currently before Congress. “We write today to request that you include $50 million for an important resiliency infrastructure project in southern Brooklyn as part of the pending federal infrastructure bill currently being negotiated in Congress: the reconstruction of the Shore Parkway Promenade,” wrote State Sen. Andrew Gounardes, Assemblymember Michael Tannousis, State Sen. Diane Savino, City Councilmember Justin Brannan, …
The big winners in the city’s 2020 budget
Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and City Council Financial Chair Daniel Dromm announced on Friday that the city has reached an agreement on a $92.8 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2020. “The budget is balanced, it’s progressive … and it’s early,” de Blasio said. The budget provides $329 million in new savings and an additional $250 million for the city’s reserve fund, bringing that fund to almost $6 billion. Of this, $1.15 billion is in the city’s general reserves, and $4.57 billion is in …